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Posted August 19, 2014
50 games for the free OS available right NOW!

A while ago, [url=http://www.gog.com/news/gogcom_soon_on_more_platforms]we've announced our plans to add Linux support as one of the features of our digital platform, with 100 games on the launch day sometime this fall. We've put much time and effort into this project and now we've found ourselves with over 50 titles, classic and new, prepared for distribution, site infrastructure ready, support team trained and standing by, and absolutely no reason to wait until October or November. We're still aiming to have at least 100 Linux games in the coming months, but we've decided not to delay the launch just for the sake of having a nice-looking number to show off to the press. It's not about them, after all, it's about you. So, one of the most popular site feature requests on our community wishlist is granted today: Linux support has officially arrived on GOG.com!

The first 50+ titles we've have in store for you come from all the corners of our DRM-Free catalog. Note that we've got many classic titles coming officially to Linux for the very first time, thanks to the custom builds prepared by our dedicated team of penguin tamers. That's over twenty fan-favorite GOG.com classics, like &[url=http://www.gog.com/game/flatout_2]Flatout 2, , <a href="http://www.gog.com/game/darklands">Darklands, or Realms of the Haunting we've personally ushered one by one into the welcoming embrace of Linux gamers. That's already quite a nice chunk of our back-catalog, and you can expect more from our dedicated Linux team soon!

Now, for the recent titles. We've got some indie games with native Linux versions that finally find their well-deserved spot in our store. Among them, debuting on Linux, - a well received original comedic Sci-Fi puzzler. On top of that, be on the lookout for two new additions to the GOG.com catalog: [url=http://www.gog.com/game/gods_will_be_watching]Gods Will Be Watching (coming in a couple of hours) and Unrest:Special Edition (Linux build coming right up!), both of them very fresh and intriguing. This is the very first time we can provide you with all the PC versions of a premiere game, and we will continue to do so in the future. If there's a Linux version of a title we're releasing, our aim is to deliver it to you Day-1. But enough about us, let's talk about the games. Here's what you can be playing on Linux today:

Anomaly Warzone Earth
Ascendant
Bionic Dues
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold - first time on Linux!
Blake Stone: Planet Strike - first time on Linux!
Bloodnet - first time on Linux!
Braveland
CLARC - first time on Linux!
Darklands - first time on Linux!
Darwinia
Defcon
Don't Starve + DLC
Dragonsphere - first time on Linux!
Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition
FlatOut - first time on Linux!
Flatout 2 - first time on Linux!
Fragile Allegiance - first time on Linux!
Gemini Rue
Gods Will Be Watching
Hammerwatch
Hocus Pocus - first time on Linux!
Kentucky Route Zero
The Last Federation
Legend of Grimrock
Litil Divil - first time on Linux!
Long Live the Queen
MouseCraft
Multiwinia
Normality - first time on Linux!
Pinball Gold Pack - first time on Linux!
Pinball World - first time on Linux!
Pirates! Gold Plus - first time on Linux!
Realms of the Haunting - first time on Linux!
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender - first time on Linux!
Rise of the Triad: Dark War - first time on Linux!
Shattered Haven
The Shivah HD
Sid Meier's Colonization - first time on Linux!
Sid Meier's Covert Action - first time on Linux!
Sir, You Are Being Hunted
Slipstream 5000 - first time on Linux!
Space Pirates and Zombies
Spacechem
Stargunner - first time on Linux!
SteamWorld Dig
Super Hexagon
Surgeon Simulator 2013
Sword of the Samurai - first time on Linux!
Teslagrad
Unrest:Special Edition (Linux build on the way!)
Uplink
VVVVVV

As if this wasn't exciting enough, we've put more than half of these titles on a special promo! Head out to the promo page and find out which of them you can get up to 75% off until Tuesday, 9:59AM GMT. Of course, all of the games from the list above that you already own will be updated with Linux versions with no additional cost for you, just as you might have expected from GOG.com.

"OK, but how will Linux support actually work on GOG.com" - you might ask. For both native Linux versions, as well as special builds prepared by our team, GOG.com will provide distro-independent tar.gz archives and support convenient DEB installers for the two most popular Linux distributions: Ubuntu and Mint, in their current and future LTS editions. Helpful and responsive customer support has always been an important part of the GOG.com gaming experience. We wouldn't have it any other way when it comes to Linux, and starting today our helpdesk offers support for our official Linux releases on Ubuntu and Mint systems.

Diversity and freedom of choice have always been an important part of the GOG.com way. We're very glad that we could improve our service with the addition of the free (and DRM-Free) alternative to the commercial operating systems. Talking with gamers is just as important, so we're counting on your feedback! If you've got any questions, suggestions, or run into any trouble, just tell us in the forum thread below this post. Just please be gentle, this is [url=http://youtu.be/qBxbPts5tOk" target="_blank]our very first time[/url] with Linux. Happy launch day, everyone!
Posted July 28, 2014
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Redfern: 2) Teslagrad have both 32 and 64bit version since it based on Unity, BUT gog provided deb actually includes BOTh FULL copies of games, 32 and 64 bit. instead of having having two version of executable it contains 2 copies of everything which is cause 2x of space used. VERY inefficient.
Well I think they should work on this.

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Redfern: 1) Gog is trying to treat Linux as Windows, using very non-traditional way to distribute game.
I agree, I think the people responsible for packaging don't have much experience as system administrators, rather more experience as casual users... they should hire somebody who has some experience in this field (or gain it quickly).

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Redfern: 2) Dont understand that is "wasted space" means. ZOMG, do GOG knows that nowday no one places /opt on dedicated partition? That means all games will be located on root partition! (if no emergency symlinking will be done)
/opt is the correct location for non-distribution, vendor-specific binary packages though. Some major linux applications are put under /opt/vendorname too, like Oracle (database) or Simpana CommVault does.

/usr/bin belongs to the distribution specific packages and /usr/local are meant for local on-site specific applications, like self-compiled tarballs and such stuff. My personal pet peeve is rather that they are using a space in their directory name ("/opt/gog games" instead of "/opt/gog"), this makes everyrthing really harder to escape for scripting ....

But you're right, many people do not have extra disk space on the root filesystem for games, it can be worked around by symlinking /opt to another partition.

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Redfern: Suggestion: stop mixing 32 and 64 bit versions in same package. This is INSANE.
It is more work but it would be really neat to provide 32 and 64 bit binaries.
Post edited July 28, 2014 by coffeecup
Posted July 28, 2014
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Redfern: Ok ok, i got to try it and tried Teslagrad deb from GOG.
Cannot say i really impressed by results.
1) Game is installed in /opt - not great but tolarable
2) Teslagrad have both 32 and 64bit version since it based on Unity, BUT gog provided deb actually includes BOTh FULL copies of games, 32 and 64 bit. instead of having having two version of executable it contains 2 copies of everything which is cause 2x of space used. VERY inefficient.
3) package marked as i386. It wont install on 64bit linux without enablein 32bit support, EVEN without actual need of 32bit libs

All f this makes me think that
1) Gog is trying to treat Linux as Windows, using very non-traditional way to distribute game. No, really, using package manager to put both version of game in /opt?
2) Dont understand that is "wasted space" means. ZOMG, do GOG knows that nowday no one places /opt on dedicated partition? That means all games will be located on root partition! (if no emergency symlinking will be done)
3) Treat 64 bit linux as secondary arch one, just like on windows.

That is good
1) it works
2) they tried not to just dump some builds as Humble or Desura, but to get them actually working.

Suggestion: stop mixing 32 and 64 bit versions in same package. This is INSANE.
I think it's way overdue to treat 32 bit versions as secondary ones, but for some reason most games are still released as 32 bit for Linux.

You can use tarballs - it's actually better than debs in this case. Then place them on any partition you want. Bundling 32 bit and 64 bit game in one is wasteful, but may be GOG want to avoid making two packages / tarballs for some reason (not sure why though). I'd surely prefer 32 bit and 64 bit versions to be separated.
Post edited July 28, 2014 by shmerl
Posted July 28, 2014
Other than my netbook and Raspberry PI, I'm not running any hardware that isn't 64 bit. Most of my operating systems are 64bit also, unless it only has 2 GBs of RAM.
Posted July 28, 2014
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jalister: Other than my netbook and Raspberry PI, I'm not running any hardware that isn't 64 bit. Most of my operating systems are 64bit also, unless it only has 2 GBs of RAM.
Yes, ARM computers are still predominantly 32 bit, but 64 bit ARM is coming as well. x86 however is already mostly x86_64 hardware wise, and with more RAM installed, 32 bit installations are fading away.
Posted July 28, 2014
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shmerl: I think it's way overdue to treat 32 bit versions as secondary ones, but for some reason most games are still released as 32 bit for Linux.

You can use tarballs - it's actually better than debs in this case. Then place them on any partition you want. Bundling 32 bit and 64 bit game in one is wasteful, but may be GOG want to avoid making two packages / tarballs for some reason (not sure why though). I'd surely prefer 32 bit and 64 bit versions to be separated.
Well, i'm not proposing to deprecate 32bit (though in Linux world there is much less dependency on 32 bit apps now since most of open source can be compiled to 64bit version), but imho its very wrong to threat 32bit so primary to label packages as 32bit with "bonus" 64bit versions embedded.
Best option is to provide both 32 and 64bit packages.
Imho things that GOG do is just wrong approach.


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shmerl: Yes, ARM computers are still predominantly 32 bit, but 64 bit ARM is coming as well. x86 however is already mostly x86_64 hardware wise, and with more RAM installed, 32 bit installations are fading away.
ARM arch is little other story..yeah, they have 32 and 64 bit too, but with its drastic difference to x86 its not something we should compare.So far gamin + ARM usually means mobile devices and handheld consoles, both out of GOG interest.
Post edited July 28, 2014 by Redfern
Posted July 28, 2014
I don't think anyone was suggesting to support ARM. We were just discussing 32 and 64 bit. Too be clear though, I am not suggesting to support ARM. :)

I also don't want to see 32 bit support go away. However, I do feel 64 bit is becoming the norm.
Posted July 28, 2014
Yeeeey, good job GOG!
Posted July 28, 2014
I heard you guys are handing out free games. I want one!

http://forum.paticik.com/read.php?35,7020092,7692156#msg-7691663

Hi,

Recently, due to a small glitch on our end, you and a bunch of other lucky people ended up getting games from the Linux Launch promo for free. Don’t worry, though, as it’s totally cool with us and you may keep them. Yes, we will not be removing these titles from your account and we do hope you will enjoy them! smiling smiley

Of course, if you prefer, like some of our community members, we can always remove them your shelf - just let us know replying to this email. Again, there’s no problem if you want to keep them smiling smiley

Have a nice weekend!

Your GOG.com Team
Posted July 28, 2014
Great!
Thanks for the tarballs!
Can't wait for more of them ;-)
Posted July 28, 2014
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Posted July 28, 2014
Linux ho!
No Linux on board matey, but this is great job GOG, well done!
Threefold salute!

*G*...*O*...*G*
Posted July 29, 2014
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Klumpen0815: click me
I really like the Terminator :)
Posted July 29, 2014
Currently in the process of learning Linux. There are some things I like but also a lot of things I don't like. Linux fans really don't talk about the cons of the OS that much.
Posted July 29, 2014
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Magmarock: Currently in the process of learning Linux. There are some things I like but also a lot of things I don't like. Linux fans really don't talk about the cons of the OS that much.
What don't you like? Which distro do you use? No OS is perfect. You do have a lot more customization options on Linux though.
Post edited July 29, 2014 by Matruchus
Posted July 29, 2014
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Magmarock: Currently in the process of learning Linux. There are some things I like but also a lot of things I don't like. Linux fans really don't talk about the cons of the OS that much.
I'm a Linux fan and I could mention a few cons here and there. It certainly requires more patience and attention than Windows or Mac. I suggest using a Virtual Machine to practice (VMWare player is my favorite), also Linux Mint is a great distro for beginners and comfortability. :-)
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